Steering Committee Minutes February 16th

TIC

• Have received quotes from newspaper vendors. A test reel is being sent to one vendor before a final decision is made

Staff Development

• Working on a potential faculty workshop at the end of May
• Will record any sessions to share out

Campus Updates

• Oberlin- projects moving along, Shansi will soon be public
• OWU- participating in the internet archive books lending projects

Steering Committee Minutes February 2nd

Technical Infrastructure Committee update

• Newspaper group met to go over proposals
• Have follow-up questions for two vendors
• Preference for on-shore vs off-shore digitizing

Grant Update

• Update on next Mellon proposal - response from Gene Tobin
• Interim report due to Mellon in March
• Discussion of current spending – allocating is not a problem, but timely spending may be discussion of digital humanities and whether to pursue or not

Campus updates

• Wooster- decision to put all senior IS projects on DRC (perhaps all available info available locally and somewhat less beyond campus) and Lisa Spiro coming to campus in late April
• Kenyon – no news
• OWU – all money allocated, but probably only ½ spent
• Denison – no news
• Oberlin- no news

Other

• New Ohio5 position – procurement specialist – to look at potential consortial fiscal cooperation
• HR departments are looking into potential cooperation
• Collection development sub-committee to look at possible end-of-year projects soon
• OhioLINK capital budget seems to be on-track
  Board of Regents very supportive of OhioLINK